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IF aeeidldfita or Spalding $ j“? e ’ .nblect to the democratic primary or June 23 Tot (Jaunty Oommindouer. Please announce that I .JfSdldatefor reflection for County •® * iaainnw subject to the action of the primary, and will be glad to ? th« suDDOrt oi all the voters. * Te j A j TIDWELL. At the solicitation of many voters I karebv announce myself a candidate for bounty Commissioner, subject to the dem- I ' l J ; j „ " ' ' I hereby announce myself a candidate J'County Commissioner, subject to the primary to be held June 23, next If elected. I pledge myself to eco nomical and business methods in conduct- I hereby announce myself a candidate for County Commissioner of Spalding county, subject to the Democratic primary ot June 23d, W, W. CHAMPION. — • .? To the Voters of Spalding County: I herebv announce myself a candidate for Selection to the office of County Commis- Atoner of Spalding county, subject to the Zmoc ratio primary to be held on June 23, 1898. My record in the past is my pledge for future foitbfuinecs. ® D.L. PATRICK. K < For Representative. To the Voters of Spalding County: I im a candidate for Representative to the legislature, subject to the primary of the w. • ini Editor Call: Please announce my name as a candidate forHepresenlative from Spalding county, subject to the action oi the democratic party. I shall be pleased to receive the support of all the voters,and ts elected will endeavor to represent the interests of the whole county. J. B. Bull.” For Tax Collector. I respectfully announce to the citizens of Spalding county that I am a candidate for reflection to the office of Tax Collec tor of this county, subject to the choice of the democratic primary, and shall be grateful for all votes given me. 8 T. R. NUTT. For County Treasurer. To the Voters of Spalding County: I announce myself a candidate for reflec tion for the office of County Treasurer, subject to democratic primary, and if elect ed promise to be as fhithful in the per formance of my duties in the future as I have been in the past. J. C. BROOKS.. *' For Tax BaoHvsr. . Editor Call : Please announce to the voters of Spalding county that I am a can didate for the office of Tax Receiver, sub ject to the Democratic primary of June 23rd, and respectfully ask the support of all voters of this county. Respectfully, It. H. YARBROUGH. I respectfully announce myself as a can didate for ref lection to the office of Tax Receiver of Spalding county .subject to the action of primary, if one is held. 8. M. M’COWELL. For Sheriff. I respectfully inform my friends—the people of Spalding county—that I am a candidate for the office of Sheriff, subject to the verdict of a primary, if one is held Your support will oe thankfully received and duly appreciated. MJ. PATRICK. I am a candidate for the democratic nomination for Sheriff, and earnestly ask the support of all my friends and the pub lic. If nominated and elected, it shall be my endeavor to fulfill the duties oflWOf flce ss faithfully as in the, past. M. Fj MORRIS. •* • • V •*<✓/// U> ” • • *’ - • *•;*'. WAAe-^’■-. L ■*? wMfl SPRING REMEDIES tor “that tired feeling,’’ spring fever and the general lassitude that comes with warm days, when the system hasn’t been cleansed from the impurities that winter om harvested in the blood, you will find in our Spring Tonic and Stomach Bitters, tor purifying the blood and giving tone to the body they are unexcelled I N. B. DREWRY * SON, » Hill Street few Bates to Baltimore, Ml.. M»y 4W 1898. Account of the quadrennial general con "ttenceM.. E. church, south, Baltimore, ••y 1-28, the Southern Bailway will sell !, ck ®£M»y2,B,4, with final limit May ni! > B>at 8 > at h* l * rates—one sere round trip. Uho ce of routes, via Washington, all rail, or ’>a Nor fol k and steamer. tor fall particulars address, 8, H Hardwick, A. G. P. A, Atlanta. Raxdall Cliftou, n „ , L _ ■; T. P. A., Macon. C -B. Whitr,T. A., Griffin. * I MAKES WRONG RIGHT DR. TALMAGE SAYS CHRISTIANITY IS REVOLUTIONARY. Kot a Relined Imbecility, bnt » Robuat Force For Dettering th. World Re ligion is Mot peace, but That Will Bo ths Final Result. (Copyright, 1888, American Press Asso- WASHINGTON, May I.—This discourse of Dr. Talmage is revolutionary for good in families and churches and nations and •specially appropriate for them times; tut, Acts xvii, 6, “These that have turned tho world upside- down aro come hither also.” There is a wild, bellowing mob around the bouse of Jason in Thessalonioa. What has the man done so greatly to offend the people? He has been entertaining Paul and his comrades. The mob surround the house and cry; “Bring out those turbu lent preachers! They are interfering with our business! They are ruining our re ligion I They are actually turning the world upside down I" The charge was true, for there is noth ing that so interferes with sin, there is nothing so ruinous to every form of estab lished iniquity, there la nothing that has such tendency to turn the world upside down as our glorious Christianity. The fact is that the world now la wrong side up, and it needs to be turned upside down in order that it may be right side up. The time was . then men wrote books entitling them “Apologies For Christianity.** I hope that day has passed. We want no more apologies for Christianity. Let the apologies be on the part of those who do not beHevo in our religion. We do not mean to make any compromise in the matter. We do not wish to hide the fact that Christianity is revolutionary and that its tendency is to turn the world up side down. Our religion has often been misrepre sented as a principle of tears and mildness and fastidiousness, afraid ot crossing peo ple’s prejudices, afraid of making some body mad, witb silken gloves lifting the people up from the church pew into glory, M though they vjore Bohemian mass, so very delicate that with one touch it may be demolished forever. Men speak of re ligion as though it were a refined imbecil ity, as though it were a spiritual chloro form, that the people were to take until the sharp cutting of life were over. The Bible, so far from this, represents the re ligion of Christ as robust and brawny— ransacking and upsetting 10,000 things that now seem to be settled on firm foun dations. I bear sonje man in the house say, “I thought religion was peace.” That is the final result. A man’s arm Is out of place. Two men come, and with gfoat effort put it back to the socket. It goes back with great pain. Then .it gets well. Our world is horrify disordered and out of joint. It must come finder an omnipotent surgery, beneath which there will be pain and anguish before there can come perfect health and quiet I proclaim, therefore, in the. name of my Lord Jesus Christ—revolution! The religion of the Bible will make a revolution in the family. Those things that are wrong in the family circle will be overthrown by it, while justice and harmony will take the place. The hus band wUI be the bead of the household only When he is fit to be. I know a man who spends all tbe money he makes in drink as well as htt the money that his wife makes, and sometimes sells the chil dren 's clothes for rum. Do you tell me that ho is to be the head of that house hold? If the wife bayo more nobility, more courage, more consistency, more of all that is right, she shall have the suprem acy. You say that the Bible says that the wife is to be subject to the husband. I know it, but that is a husband, not a masculine caricature. There is no human or divine law that makes a woman subor dinate to a man unworthy of her. When Christianity comes into a domestic circle, it will give the dominancy to that one who is the most worthy of it As religion comes in at the front door, mirth and laughter will not go out of the back door. It will not hopple the chil dren’s feet. John will laugh just as loud, and George will jump higher than he ever did before. It will steal from the little ones neither ball nor bat nor hoop nor kite. It win establish a family altar. Angels will hover over it. Ladders of light will reach down to it The glory of heav en will stream upon it The books of re main brapce will record it, and tides of everlasting blessedness will pour from it Not such a family altar as you may have seen where the prayer is long.and a long chapter is read, with tedious explanation, and the exercise keeps on the chil dren’s knees are sore, and their backs ache, and their patience is lost, and for the seventh time they have counted all the rungs in the chair, but I mean a family altar such as may have been seen in your father’s house. You may have wandered far off in thp paths of sin and darkness, but you have never forgotten that family altar where father and mother knelt im portuning God for yoursouk That is a memory that a man never gets over. There will be a hearty, joyful family altar in every domestic circle. You will not have to go far to find Hannah rearing her Sam uel for the temple or a grandmother Lois instructing her young Timothy in the knowledge of Christ, or a Mary and Mar tha and Lazarus gathered in fraternal and sisterly affection, .or a table at whieh Jesus sits, as at that of Zaccbeus, or a home in which. Jesus dwells, as in the house of Simon the tanner. The religion of Jesus Christ, coming into tbo domestic circle, will overthrow ail jealousies, all (anglings, and peace and order and holiness will take PO AS2A O ChrtatiiS°'will produce a rev olution in commercial circles. Find me 50 merchants, and you find that they have 50 standards of what is right and wrong. Yon say to some one about a merchant, “la he.honest?” “Oh, yes,” the man says, “he is monest, but he grinds tbe'faces of his clerks! Beta honest, but he exagger ates the value of bls goods. He is honest, but he loans money on bond and mortgage with the understanding that the mortgage can Be quiet for ten years, but as soon as he gets the mortgage be records it and be gins a foreclosure suit, and the sheriff’s writ comes down, and the day of sale ar rives, and away goes the homestead, and the creditor buys it In st half price.” Honest? When he loaned the money, he knew that he would: get the homestead at half price. Honest? But he goes to the insurance office to get a policy on bls life and tells the doctor that he is well when he knows that for ten years be has had but one lung. Honest? Though he sells property by the map, forgetting to tell the purchaser that the ground is all under water, bnt it is generous in him to do that, tor he throws the water into the bar gain. Ah, my friends, there is but one stand- ‘ ... •rd of the everlasting right and of the everlasting wreng, end that is the Bible, and when that prim lp| o shall get its pry Wmcr our commercial Imuses I believe that one-half of them will go over! The ruin will begin at one end of the street, and it will be crash! crash! crash! all the way down to the docks. “What is the mattar? Has there been a fall in gold?” ‘Oh, no.” “Has there been anew tariff?” “No.” “Has there been a failure in crops?” “No." “Has there been an un accountable panic?” “No." This is the secret: The Lord God has set up his throne of judgment in the exchange. He has summoned the righteous and the wicked to come before him. What was 1887? A day of judgment! What was 1807? A day of judgment! What was the extreme de pression of two years ago? A day of judg ment! Do you think that God is going to wait until he has burned tho world up be fore he rights three wrongs? I tell you, nay I Every day is a day of judgment, The fraudulent man piles up his gains, bond above bond, United States security above United States security, emolument above emolument, until hie property has become a great pyramid, and as he stands looking at it he thinks it can never be destroyed, but the Lord God comes and with bis little finger pushes it all over. You build a house, and you put into it a rotten beam. A mechanic standing by says: “It will never do to put that beam in. It will ruin your whole building." But you put it in. The house is complet ed. Soon it begins to rock. You call in the mechanic and ask: “What is the mat ter with this door? What is the matter with this wall? Everything seems to be giving out.” Says the mechanic, “You put a rotten beam into that structure, and the whole thing has got to come down." Here is an estate that seems to be all right now. It has been building a great many years. But 16 years ego there was a dis honest transaction in that commercial house. a That one dishonest transaction wjll keep on working ruin in the whole structure, until down the estate will comq in wreck and ruin about the possessor’s tars—one dishonest dollar in the estate demolishing all bis possessions. I have seen it again and again, and so have you. Here is your money safe. The manu facturer and yourself only know how it can be opened. Yoh have the key. You touch the lock, and the ponderous door swings back. But let me tell you that, however firmly barred and bolted your money safe may be, you cannot keep God out. He will come some day into your counting room, and he will demand: “Where did that note of hand come from? How do you account for this security? Where did you get that mortgage from? What does this mean?” If it is all right, God will say: “Well done, good and faith ' ful servant. Be prospered in this world. Be happy in the world to come.” If it is all wrong, he will say: “Depart, ye cursed. Be miserable for your iniquities in this ' life, and then go down and spend your eternity with thieves and horse jockeys and pickpockets.” You have an old photograph of the signs on your street. Why have those signs nearly all changed within the last 20 years? Does the passing away of a gener ation account for it? Ob, no. Does the fact that there are hundreds of honest ' men who go down every y*ar account for it? Oh, no. This is the secret: The Lord .God has been walking through the oom ’ , menial streets of our great cities, and he has been adjusting things according to the principles of eternal rectitude. The time will come when, through the revolutionary power of this gospel, a false hood, instead of being called exaggeration, ' equivocation or evasion, will be branded a lie, and stealings that now sometimes go under the head of percentages and oom . missions and bonuses will be put into the catalogue of state prison offenses I Society will be turned inside out and upside down and ransacked Os God’s truth until busi ness dishonesties shall oome to an end, and all double dealing, and God will overturn and overturn and overturn, and commer cial men in all cities will throw up their hands, crying out, “These that have , turned the world upside down are oome hither.” The religion of Jesus Christ will pro , duce a revolution in our churches. The noncommittal, do nothing policy of the church of God will give way to a spirit of I bravest conquest. Piety in this day seems | , to me to be salted down just so as to keep. . It seems as If the church were chiefly anx ious to take care of Itself, and if we hear i of want and squalor and heathenism out , side we say, “What a pity!” and we put our hands in our pockets, and we feel ■ around for a 2 cent piece, and with a great flourish we put it upon the plate and are , amazed that the world is not converted In , six weeks. Suppose there were a great war, and there were 800,000 soldiers, but all of those 300,000 soldiers, excepting ton i men, were in their tents or scouring their . muskets or cooking rations. Yoh would , say, “Os course defeat fnust oome in that . case.” It Is worse than that in the , church. Millions of the professed soldiers of Jeeps Christ are oooklng rations or asleep in tbblr tents, while only one man here and there goes out to do battle for . the Lord. “But,” says some one, "we are estab lishing a great many missions, and I think they will save the masses.” No; they will i not. Five hundred thousand of them will . not do it. They are doing a magnificent i work, but every mission chapel is a oon i session of the disease.and weakness of the . church. It is making a dividing line be i tween the classes. It is saying to the rich ( and to the well conditioned, “If you can i pay your pew rents, come to the main au ; dlence room." It is saying to the poor l man; "Your coat is too bad and your shoes are not good enough. If you want to get to heaven, you will have to go by , the way of the mission chapel.” The mis sion chapel has become the kitchen, where . the church does its sloppy work. There , are hundreds and thousands of churches , in this country—gorgeously built and sup ported—that even on bright and sunshiny ' days are not half full of worshipers, and yet they are building mission chapels, be ! cause by some expressed or implied regu . lation the great masses of the people are kept out of the main audience room. , Now, I say that any place of worship , Which is appropriate for one class is ap i propriate for all classes. Let the rich and the poor meet together, the Lord the Maker i of them all Mind yon that I say that . mission chapels are a necessity, the way churches are now conducted, but may God speed the time when they shall cease to be , a necessity. God will rise up and break , down the gates of the church that have i kept back the masses, and woe be to those , who stand in the way I They will be tram pled underfoot by the vast populations i making a stampede for heaven. I saw In some paper an acoonnt of a i church in Boston in which, it is said, there ware a great many plain people. The next week tiro trustees ot that church came out In the paper and said it was not so at aH; “they were elegant people nnd highly conditioned people that went there.” Then I laughed outright, and when I laugh 1 laugh very loudly. “Those people,” I said, "are afraid of the sickly sentimentality of the churches.” New, my ambition is not to preach to you so much. It seems to me that you must be faring sumptuously every day, and the marks of comfort are all about you. Yon do not need the gospel half as much as do some who never come hqye. Rather than be priding myself on a chuveh In front of which there shall halt 00 splendid equi pages on the Sabbath day X would have a church up to whore gates*there should cornu a long procession of the suffering, and tho stricken, and the dying, bagging for admittance. You do not need the gos pel so much as they. You have good things in thia life. Whatever may be your future destiny, you have had a pleasant time here. But those dying populations of which I speak, by reason of their Want and suffering, whatever may be their fu ture destiny, are in perdition now, and if there be any comfort in Christie gospel for God’s sake give it to them! Revolution! The pride of the church must oome down. The exclusiveness of the church must come down 1 The finan cial boastings of the church must come down I If monetary success were the chief idea in the church, then I say that the present mode of conducting finances is the beet. If it Is to see how many dollars you can gain, then the present mode is the best. But if it is the saving of souls from sin and death and bringing the mighty populations of our cities to the knowledge of God, then I cry revolution I It is com ing fast. I feel it in the air. I hear the rumbling of an earthquake that shall shake down In one terrific crash tiro ar rogance of our modern Christianity. The sea is covered with wrecks, and multitudes are drowning. We come out with the church lifeboat, and the people begin toolamber in, and we shout: “Stop! stop! You must think it costs nothing to keep a lifeboat. Those seats at the prow are |1 apiece, these in the middle 60 cents and those seats in the stern 2 shillings. Please to pay up or else flounder on a lit tle longer till the mission boat whose work It is to save you penniless wretches shall come along and pick you up. We save only first class sinners in this boat.” The talk Is whether Protestant churches or Roman Catholic churches are coming out ahead. I tell you, Protestants, this truth plainly—that until your churches are as free as are the Roman Catholic cathedrals they will beat yfiu. In their cathedrals the millionaire and the beggar kneel side by side. And until that time comes In our churches we canpot expect the favor of God or permanent spiritual prosperity. Revolution! It may be that before tiro church learns its duty to the masses God will scourge it and oome with the whip of omnipotent indignation and drive out the money changers. It may be that there is to be a great day of upsetting before that time shall comq. If it tauat oome, O Lord God, let it oome now! In that future day of the reconstructed church of Christ the church building will be the most cheerful of all buildings. In stead of tiro light of the sun strained through painted glass until an intelli gent auditory looks green and blue and yellow and copper colored, we will have no such things. The pure atmosphere of heaven will sweep out the fetid atmos phere that has been kept in many of our ohurohea boxed up from Sunday to Sun day. The day of which I speak will be a day of great revivals. There will be such a time a? there was in the parish of Shotts, where 600 souls were born to God in one day—such times as were seen in this country when Edwards gave the alarm, when Tennent preached, and Whitefield thundered, and Edward Payson prayed; such times as some of you remember in 1867, when the voice of prayer and praise was heard in theater and warehouse and blackshop and factory and engine house, and the auctioneer’s cry of “a half, and a half, and a half,” was drowned out by the adjoining prayer meeting, in which the people cried out, "Men and brethren, what shall we do?” In those days of which lam speaking the services of the church of God will be more spirited. The ministers of Christ, instead of being anxious about whether they are going to lose their place in their notes, wUI get on fire with the theme and pour the living truth of God upon an aroused auditory, crvlng out to the right eous, "It shall be well with you,” and to the wicked: “Woe! It shall be Hl with you.” In those days the singing will be very different from what it is now. Ths music will weep and wail and chant and triumph. People then will not be afraid to open their mouths when they sing. The man with a cracked voice will risk it on “Windham” and “Ortonville” and “Old Hundred.” Grandfather will find the place for his grandchild in the hymnbook, or tiro little child wUI be spectacles for the grandfather. Hosanna will meet hosanna and together go climbing to the throne, and the angels wUI hear, and God wiU listen, and the gates of heaven wUI hoist, apd it will be as when two seas meet—the wave of earthly song mingling with the surging anthems of the free. Ob, my God, let me live to see that day! Let there be no power In disease or aoofT dent or wave of the sea to disappoint my expectations. Let all other sight fail my eyes rather than that I should miss that vision. Let all other sounds fail my ears rather than that I should fail to hear that sound. I want to stand on the mountain top to catch the first ray of tiro dawn and with flying feet bring the news. And, oh, when we bear the clattering hoofs that bring on the King’s chariot may we all be ready, with arches sprung and with hand on the rope of the bell that Is to sound the victory, and with wreaths all twisted for the way, and when Jesus dismounts let it be amid the huzza! huzza! of a world re deemed! Where and when will that revolution be gin? Hera and now. In your heart and mine. Sin must go down, our pride must go down, our worldliness must go down, that Christ may come up. Revolution! “Except a man bo born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Why not now let the revolution begin? Not next Sab bath, but now. Not tomorrow, when you go out into commercial circles, but now. Arohias, the magistrate of Thebes, was sitting with many mighty men, drinking wine. A messenger came in, bringing a letter informing him of a conspiracy to end his life and warning him to flee. Archias took the letter; bnt, instead of opening it, put it into his pocket and said to the messenger who brought it, "Busi ness tomorrow.” The next day he died. Before he opened the letter the govern ment was captured. When he read the letter, it was too late. Today I put into the hand of every man and woman who hears or reads these words a message of life. It says, "Today, if ye will bear his voice, harden not your heart.” Do not put away the message and say, "This busi ness tomorrow.” Thia night thy soul may ba required of thee! t < y ;• y! y y;. AN OPEN LETTER To MOTHERS. W| WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD "CASTORIA,” AMD “PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” as our trade mark. DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, qf Hyannis, Massachusetts, 90S the originator qf “PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” the same A that has borne and does now werv bear the facsimile signature of wrapper. 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